Reviews + Articles

Lois Winston, Guest Author

I enjoy welcoming author Lois Winston back to the blog. She always has a fun article. Today’s guest post provides the background for her latest Anastasia Pollack Crafting Mystery, Stitch, Bake, Die! (Be happy you don’t know these women!) Thank you,...

Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci

Last Thursday, when Katherine mentioned she had listened to Stanley Tucci read Taste on the audiobook, I didn’t realize what a miracle it is that he was able to read it. He had surgery to remove an enormous cancerous tumor from the base of his tongue, and he...

Kevin’s Corner Annex – Among the Shadows by Bruce Robert Coffin

Today is deadline day for me. I read five books this weekend so I could review them. You’ll be reading reviews of the books in December, January, and even February. In the meantime, I picked up one of Kevin R. Tipple’s reviews to share with you. I know...

A Line to Kill by Anthony Horowitz

I have to admit I meant to read the earlier Hawthorne and Horowitz mysteries, The Word is Murder and The Sentence is Death, but I never got around to them. If you’re like me, and just want to start with the third in the series, A Line to Kill, you’ll be...

In the Crypt with a Candlestick by Daisy Waugh

Great cover. Great title. That’s all that’s great about Daisy Waugh’s In the Crypt with a Candlestick. I thought it was just me, that I didn’t get the British sense of humor. But, when I looked up reviews after I finished the book, there...

Winners and A Mixed Bag

Congratulations to the winners of the Halloween book giveaway. Ronald O. from Stockton, CA won Be My Ghost. Halloween Party Murder is going to Marilynne S. from Portland, OR. The books are going out in the mail tomorrow. (Wish us luck on the mail!) This week,...